It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
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Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
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Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
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The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
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God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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